OK so this morning I woke up pissed off with bo2 this is the second disk i have had in 2 weeks so here is what i did.

For people that don't know I have 3 playstations.

So this morning I went to gamestation demanded a replacement disk and started talking to the guy at gamestation about the problem he informed me that I was not the only one having this issue with the game locking your ps3 and freezing the game screens.

He gave me a replacement then it got me thinking everytime I have used the game I have installed the texture so I brought another one to see what would happen.

And guess what the ps3 slim without texture installed has been working fine for 3 hours now as for the other game both are new mind. It locks the ps3 after 30 mins of game play and now it won't even get past the multiplayer main menu without freezing,

So time for me to get a full refund on the damaged disk.

I think installing the texture must some how damage the disk maybe laser burn or something.

Since I dled the textures the game hasn't froze. It makes it so you don't even use the blue ray when playing so not sure how its damaging it. And they havn't had this option for ps3 before now. There was a big petition thread to get them to do this for ps3.

I think you might be suffering from a coincidence here. The system that freezes, how long has it been used? How many hours of previous COD titles (they were pretty hard on the blue ray).

Bottom line is if the game disk got damaged it has nothing to do with your ps3. DVD and Blue ray use a weak laser to get the info off of the disk, there is no physical contact.

I have 2 ultra slim 500Gb, I installed textures on one but not the other. I have also tried swapping the disks over to the other system. The disk that had textures installed freeze's on both the ps3 with and without textures installed. But the disk that I did not use the install textures on works fine on both machines. I have even tried them both on my son's ps3 slim 80gb same with one works fine other locks his machine.

The HHD textures instal is there to protect ur PS3 from damaging itself having to run COD all the time. Freezes isn't a 1 person problem, everybody has it, some ppl don't even get to the main menu screen without freezing on the loading screen.

i don't know how true it is, technically, but i do have 2 ps3s, and 2 copies of the game. one is a hardened edition, and one isn't. the one that is a hardened edition, i don't have the textures installed, and it's never frozen once. the other copy, on the other ps3, i did install the textures and it freezes every other match, usually on a loading screen in multiplayer.

i'm not a technically savvy person, so i don't know the differences between the two, since both ps3s are the same, bought from the same store at the same time. the only difference i have done is install the textures on one ps3, and not on the other ps3... i don't believe in coincidences, but like i said, maybe there is something going on other than that... so who knows.

If your PS3 is scratching discs when they are in the machine how is that the games fault? The disc cannot be damaged from installing the texture pack, your talking absalute rubbish. I suggest you get your playstation looked at if the blu ray drive is scratching your games.

Stop spreading lies - I installed the textures first thing when I got the game - I am now first Prestige and have only had 2 hard freezes.

Looking at other peoples Stats - player cards etc. while in MP has been proven to cause freezes - basically when I'm in MP I don't do anything else - just sit in the lobby and wait for the game to start.

The install is a good thing don't try to discourage people from using it.

Untrue, When i got the game on opening day, the first two things i did were, install the textures and set the default settings to go straight to the multplayer option.

With the exception of the servers being down last Wednesday night until Thursday evening it has run almost perfectly.

I have had 2 freezes, both occured after game setting change updates, but when the last settings change came through on monday i downloaded it, logged out shut down and restarted before i played again it did not freeze.

I thought the idea of installing the textures onto the HDD was so the blueray drive did not have to constantly read them from the game disc therefore putting extra strain on your system, correct me if i am wrong..

I have textures installed. I experienced the hard freezing, but last night was the first night I did not experiencing any hard freezing, a lot of lag and getting booted from games, but no hard freezing.